Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note

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Working alongside a police force in the United Kingdom, the study briefly presented in this note, sought to create an analytical tool (the Sexual Trafficking Identification Matrix—STIM) with which policing actors could distinguish between Adult Services Website (ASW) profiles posted by independent sex workers and profiles created by traffickers. Distinguishing between these will potentially allow law enforcement agencies to prioritise their investigatory efforts more efficiently.

Original languageEnglish
Article number319
JournalSocial Sciences
Volume11
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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    Research areas

  • human trafficking, organised crime, policing, sex work

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